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I recommend Reefco. I've spent a lot of time mentoring the owner (Brian) on Fish QT options for his store.

After we get settled, I want to setup a 90 cube for ponies, pipefish and other gentle feeders.

They are hit or miss when it comes to eating anything other than foods they target in the wild. Some will eat frozen clams or live blackworms, and will eventually take to other prepared frozen foods. Some will never eat anything except pods or aiptasia, and starve to death once these are gone.

*** At this time H2O2 is only appropriate to use for the following scenarios: Hybrid Tank Transfer Method: Hybrid TTM to treat all parasites! For temporary relief of velvet & brook. It can also be used as temporary relief for uronema; however the H2O2 will aggravate the red sores if a fish has...

Head up or head down? The former would be a symptom of a spinal injury; the latter could mean a swim bladder disorder.

Sounds like it might be time for euthansia: How to euthanize a fish Can you post a video showing the erratic swimming behavior??

When he was in the display: Any scratching, heavy breathing, head twitching, swimming into the flow of a powerhead or white spots?? If none of the above, then there's nothing you can really do because you have no treatable symptoms to go on.

Have you seen any white stringy poo coming out of him??

I would feed General Cure (which contains metro + prazi) for at least a week; longer if you see white stringy poo. I've been doing this starting on Day 1, and I don't often lose fish to internal pathogens any longer.

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Recommended dosage for the 30 min H2O2 bath is now 150 ppm. Dosing instructions have been updated here: Hydrogen Peroxide

Hydrogen Peroxide *** The information contained here is subject to frequent changes as I experiment and learn more about the usefulness of H2O2 *** What It Treats – Provides temporary relief for Marine Velvet Disease. After a 30 minute H2O2 bath, the fish should be transferred into a Quarantine...

Bad things always happen when you go on vacation. I've come home to corals upside down in the sand, failed return pumps, etc. Sounds like CUC took care of your fish. Hopefully it wasn't anything disease related. Keep a close eye on all your other fish.

It's a tough industry to be in, but this is why I won't invest in expensive equipment unless it's been around awhile. Aquarium equipment or otherwise. Let everyone else be the guinea pig. :drunk:

That should help. One word of caution... Supposedly combining chelated copper + amino acids can turn the copper more toxic, but I cannot find any hard evidence to back up this assertion. Here is where I first read about this: Chelated copper is chelated copper

Most negative effects of exposing fish to copper are anecdotal, but IMO gut flora (or microbiota) are probably most at risk. SW fish drink A LOT of water, so copper water travels through the GI tract and does its damage. Losing gut microbiota has a negative impact on the fishes' natural immune...

My QT protocol is basically this: Drop the fish straight into 1.0 ppm chelated copper (Copper Power). Use the Hanna High Range Copper Colorimeter (HI702) to test. Over the next 3-4 days slowly raise the Cu level to 2.0 ppm. And when I say slowly, I mean do it gradually: Add small amounts of...

^^ Lysine is great for suppressing symptoms of viruses (like Lympho) in fish. While Vitamin C is really good for boosting the immune system to overcome bacterial infections. I like being able to break down and analyze what products are capable of doing for our fish.

On the surface it seems like an interesting option. But I'm always suspicious of aquarium products that don't list out the ingredients. This one just says, "Purified water, proprietary complex of amino acids." I like how Selcon, for example, provides more details: Selco Highly Unsaturated Fatty...

HLLE is more of a condition than an actual disease. Possible causes include: Stray voltage, running carbon, nutritional deficiency and copper exposure. "Hole in the Head" is caused by a parasitic diplomonad, specifically certain species of Hexamita. The flagellates typically start out in the GI...